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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-04-14
NATIONAL CAPITAL.

Senator Spooner has returned to Washing.
ton from q visit to Wisconsin. He says the
people Of the West are pleased with the com.
position of the interstate commission, and
that they expect benefcent results from the
law.
The quartermaster- general has awarded to
Gross Bros of Lee, Mass, the contract for
furnishing headstones to national cemeteries
Tor 81 apiece.
The President has appointed Benton j.
Hall of Iowa, to DO commissioner of patents,
vice M. V. Montgomery, resigned.
The comptroller OF the currency has do
clared fourth dividend Of 20 per cent. in
favor of the creditors Of the Lancaster Ma
tional Bank Of Clinton, Mass This makes 70
per cent. on claims proved, amounting to
(l70, 1854.
Charles W. Thompson Of Massachusetts,
has been appointei to a third class clerkship
in the pension Office, by transfer from the
secretary's Office
A. S. Barnes, the New York publisher, has
sent a check for 1920 to the treasurer
of the Ladies' Aid Association of
the Garfield Hospital to furnish one of the
rooms All but three of the % rooms In the
new building have been furnished,
Secretary Whitney has decided to push to
completion the work on the cruisers At
lanta, Boston and Chicago Energy will be
concentrated upon the work required by the
original contracts with John Roach.
The interstate commerce commission has
appointed E. L. Pugh Of Alabama to
clerkship under that commission. Mr.. Pngh
is a son OF Senator Pugh This is the first
appointment made by this commission.
The director of the mint has issued circu.
lar, inviting designs for the diverse and re
verse for the silver dollar and minor coins
Of the United States.
Commissioner OF Agriculture Coleman
says that as far as he knows. there is now
no pleuro-pneumonia in Massachusetts,. He
attributes its rapid extinction to the fact
that it was promptly met, and in that con-
nsction speaks in high praise Of the cordial
and vigorous co operation OF tho authorities
In Massachusetts.
vessels are at very low ebb, and within a
short time heavy discharges of force will be
made at the navy yards. Reductions have
already been ordered at the Mare Island
Portsmouth and New York yards.
AS a result of the survey of the U. S. ship.
Shenandoah and Lackawanna at Mare Island
CAL, these vessels will be sold at public
auction and their names striker from the
naval register.
The President has appointed Eugene
Semple Of Washington Territory to BE-
Governor Of Washington Territory.
A. K. Cutting, the Texas editor, is still
trying to collect the $50, 900 damages he
claims Of Mexico He has recently written
to the state department about it. But the
state department gives him no encourage
ment. His claim is preposterous
secretary lamar is hard at work upon the
GRAFTON which he is to deliver at the unveil-
ing Of the statue of Calhoun in Charleston
on the 26th inst.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-04-14
Is PHYSICIANS
| FAILED.

The treatment of many thousands of cases
of those chronic weaknesses and distressing
ailments peculiar to females, at the lnvalids
Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, n. T.,
has afforded vast experience in nicely
adapting and thoroughly testing remedies
for the cure of woman's peculiar malades.
DIR. Pierce's FavOrite Prescription
IS the outgrowth, or resultA1f this great
and valuable experience. thousands OF
testimonials, received from patients ana
from physicians who have tested it in the
NOR, aggravated and obstinate cases when
HAD ',alfied their skill. prove it TO be the
most wonderful remedy ever devised Tor
the relief and cure of suffering women. 1t
is not recommended as "cure-all, but
as most perfect Specific for woman s
peculiar ailments.
As powerful, invigOrating tonic,
Il jmparts strength to the whole. system,
and 10 the uterus, or womb and its ap-
pendages. in particular. For overworked,
tworn-out" "ruu-down," debilitatcd teach
ers, milliners, dressmakers, seamstresses,
"shop-girls," housekeepers, nursing moth
ers, and feeble women generally, Dr..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription is the great
est earthly boon, being unequalled as an
nppetizing cordial and restorative tonic. II
promotes digestion and assimilation of food,
Address. WORLDS DISPl
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-04-14

In pregnancy" Fayorite Prescription"
is ''mothers cordial" relieving nausea,
weakness of stomach and other distressing
symptoms common to that condition. x
its use is kept up in the latter months of
CESSATION, it SO prepares the system dor de-
livery as to greatly lessen. and -rany times
almost entirely do away with the suHerlngs
Of that trying ordeal
@Fayorifa Erescript:ori,sw hen taken
in connection with the use of DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery. and small laSa-
tive doses of DR.. Pierces Purgative Pellets
Little Liver Pills., cures Liver. Kidney and
bladder diseases. Their combined use also
removes blood taints, and abolishcs can
cerors and scrofulous humors from the
systern.
%.Favorite Prescription is the only
medicine for women sold, by druggists,
under a positive guarantee, from the
manufacturers, that it will give satisfac-
ton in every case, or money viii be re-
funded This guarantee has been printed
on the bottle-wrappcr, and faithfully car
ried out for many years. Large bottles
200 doses SI.O0, or six bottles for
$500.
re- Send ten cents in stamps for DR..
Pierce's large, illustrated Treatise Q60
pages) on Diseases of Women.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-04-14
SHOT AT IN THE PULPIT.
Parson Narrowly Escapes Death
while Defying Assassins.

A Pittsburg, Pa, special says: While the
congregation Of the Brown African Metho>
dist Episcopal Church in Allegheny were
holding services on Fast day, shot was
fired, apparently at the pastor. 1t was
about 8. So o'clock, and Rev. L. Lowry had
orensd the sermon for the evening.
He was telling the congregation that he was
not afraid, as he trusted in the LORD as
his light "No matter" he said, 'if there are
thousands of thieves, murderers and assasslns
prowling around and lying in wait for me
under the cover of Darkness" Here he was
in LEI rupted by The window crashing the
glass flying in al directions, and ball
whizzed about foot from his head and
lodg in the wall few feet from him. The
people jumped to their feet as if lifted by an
electric shock, Women screamed, children
howled, and pandemonium reigned. The
pastor exerted himself to III, utmost to calm
his flock and finally finished his sermon. He
then hunted for the bullet, and found A.
cal;ber ball hidden about an inch deep in tho
wall .."
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-04-14
LUCKY WHALERS.

Reports from Various Vessels of their
Success.
Letters from Captain Durham Of schooner
Alcyone at Provincetown, Mass, report
boiling out sperm whale, which will yield
so or GO barrels of oil. They also report the
schooner Rising Sun, with Is barrels of black
oil. Letters received at Falmouth from the
whaler Eunice II. Adams, while at sea. re-
port her as having CTS barrels of sperm oil;
home Oct l. Capt. Sherman Of bark Mer-
maid, New Bedford, reports Ter at Zanzibar,
Feb. JIG, having taken 170 barrels of sperm
oil since last report; 1890 barrels sperm oil
on board II months out; sent home 2S5 bar
rsls wbnls oil
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-04-14
GOLD DUST.

Proud looks make foul work in fair
faces
Envy shooteth at others and wound
eth herself.
1t costs more to revenge wrongs than
to bear them.
Small faults INDUCED arc little thieves
that let in greater.
He who can take advice is superior to
him who can give it.
He is truly great that is great in chart
ty.-[Thomas Kemps.
Live so that others may know you
belong to God without doubt.
We must learn to infusc sublimity in
to trifes; that is power. [Millet.
If we had no faults ourselves, we
should not take pleasure in observing
those of Others.
To stimulate feeling and do nothing
in consequence is short road to destroy
the feeling.-[Dr. A. Maclaren.
Tho believers is a supcrhuman life.
The sources of his strength and consola-
tion are not in the country in which he
sojourns, but in the higher lands be-
You'd.
Alasl this time is never the time for
self. denial; it is always tho next time.
Abstinence is so much moro pleasant to
contemplate upon tho other side of in
diligence. -[Macdonald.
Great thoughts arc always helpful.
They give noble tone to the spirit, ex-
alt the mind, and stimulate to worthy
deeds. Those who cultivate such
thoughts arr We at the best experience
and achieve the happiest lives.
The man who does most to enlighten
human darkness, mitigate human dis
tress and comfort human hearts, is more
likely to BIO true and sound in spiritual
philosophy and doctrine than the man
who is only critical and not self-sacri-
ticing.
The Emperor Augustus, when seated
at table between Virgil, who was asth-
matte, and Horace, who was blear-eyed,
said, laughing, II am between sighs and
tears" Alas who is not seated between
these two table companions at the ban
quet of life9--[ Joseph Roux.
The hope of another life to be the com
plcment of this gives us hope to begin
our task. The rough sketch shall here
after become the finished picture, the
artist shall give it the last touch at his
easel; the science we had just begun
shall be completed, and the incipient
destiny shall be achieved. Fear not,
then, to begin thou hast eternity before
thee in which to end Brownson.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-04-14

As the coming OF great storm is heralded
by the display Of cautio. AIRY signals, SO is tho
approach of that dread and fatal disease,
In advance by pimples, blotches. cru tons,
ulcers Rlandular swellings, and kindred out
,purd manifestations OF the Internal blood poi
son. which. il not prompt expelled from the
system, attacks the delicate tissues of tho
lungs, causing them to ulcerate and break
down. DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov-
cry" Is the greatest remedy for this, as for all
diseases hayit their origin in bal tlCod 1t
Improves the appetite and digestion, i creases
nutrition and b-ilds up the wasted system.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-04-14
Little Too Far on.

A delegation Of cattle dealers waited on
President Cleveland and invited him to at
tend the reunion of the live stock breeders of
the United States at Chicago Nov. s to IS.
The President said that, while he had a
great desire 10 visit the West, he could not
promise to accept an invitation for date SO
far Ii, The fntura
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-04-14
MANUFACTURERS ALL AT SEA.

Eject of the Interstate Law in South.
western New Hampshlre.
Manufacturers throughout southwestern
New Hampshire are much exercised over the
effect of the interstate commerce law, and
are all at sea- The general opinion is that
the law is more favorable to railroads than
to shippers The Cheshire railroad has
adopted the New England classification for
all New England business and the official
classification on all other business.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-04-14
EARTHQUAKE AT BURLINGTON.

Two Shocks, the Second n Severe One,
Frightening People.
Two shocks of an earthquake occurred at
Burlington, Vt, on the 10th, the first, rather
light at about 2.30 and the second 10 minutes
later. The second shock was very heavy,
resembling the conclusion from large gun,
followed by jar of five seconds duration.
Doors and windows ratified, and those living
in the third story of blocks say that the build
Jugs seemed to sway to md fro. People ran
into the street in panic, many supposing that
a terrible explosion had occurred near by.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-04-14
Judge william s,rone pe.d,

Judge William Strong died at Portland,
Oregon, on the 10th inst He went to Ore
gon, then territory, in 1859, with an APP
pointment from President Fillmore as a
Federal judge He was cousin of Judge
Strong OF the United States Supreme Bench
and a noted descendant Of tbs Strong family
Of New England.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-04-14
Mason & Hamlin Pianos.

The new mode of piano construction,
iayented and introduced by Mason q
Hamlin in 1882, is an assured success,
tested and proved, many of the best
Judges having pronounced it "the great
est improvement in pianos of the CEN
tury." By it musical tones of remarka-
BILE brightness and purity are obtained,
and tuning is required less than one
quarter as often as in the old system. An
illustrated catalogue, fully explaining the
Improvements, will be sent free to any
address.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-04-14
THREATENING DROUGHT.
Grazing Lands OF Texas Suffering From
tho Annual Curse.

The threatening drought now extends from
the far western grazing lands across the state
for distance OF 800 miles, into tho pine re-
gions bordering on Louisiana. Tho general
rains, which usually set in at the full OF tho
moon, are wanting, and the cool dry winds of
the past fortnight continue to prevail Be-
tween Sun Antonio and the coast, embracing
such fertile counties as Guadaloupe, Gonzales
Iavaca, Colorado, Caldwell, Bastrop and a
dozen others, tho drought has assumed serl-
GUS aspect, putting an embargo upon all agri-
cultural development, especially cotton, the
chief product OF this section. The fields arc
bnrren even OF weeds, while strings of cattle,
almost too poor to stand up. arc travelling con-
staniIy in srarch of prass and Matar.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-04-14
BLUE LAWS AT THE CAPITAL.
ObsoIete Statutes TO he Revived There
Next sunday.

ObsoIete Statutes 20 he Revived There
Next sunday.
The Commissioners Of the District OF Co
lumbia have decided to revive the blue laws
on Sunday, and prevent the opening OF any
places of business except apothecary shops
and undertaking establishments. While the
commissioners were going through the dis
trict laws recently in order to see which OF
them shouldbe incorporated in the new police
regulations, as authorized to lie issued by the
last Congress, they discovered an old and OBJ
solete law directing the closing of all bust
ness places except those of druggists, under
takers and BARRIERS. a subsequent law
closed barber shops. SO only the TIVE former
gro authorized 10 remain open.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-04-14

November, 1880" wrote Jos p. Murphy,
Springfield, Tenn, "my wife suffered eighteen
months with neuralgia and paralysis. BY use
of st. Jacobs OIL, she could walk" October
nth, 1885, he writes. my wife recovered en-
tlrely." Price fifty cents
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-04-14
APAcHEs TO BE REMOVED.

Those Mt Fort Marion, Fla, to he
Brought Farther North.
The agitation by Senator Dawes and Mr..
Herbert Welsh relative 10 the Imprisonment
of tho Apache Indians who are at Fort
Marion, Fla. has had its effect upon the
President, who has caused the secretary OF
war to prepare an order for their removal to
a more northerly and more secluded reser-
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-04-14
Somethinr New

And most important. Hallett d Co., Portland,
Maine, can furnish you work that you can do
at great profit and live at home, wherever YOU
Rand, Westboro, Mass, writes us That he made
$50 profit in single day. Every worker can
make from S. TO SIS and upwards per day. All
is new, Capital not required; yuu are started
free, Full particulars free. Send your adj
dress at once.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-04-14

Young or middlc-aged mon, suffering from
nervous debility or ndred affections, should
addres with ~ cents in stamps for large treat
:se, Worlds Dispensaty Medical Association,
pufala n ".
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-04-14
IMPROVED PUBLIC SERVICE.

Ex-Seeretary Brtstow Bessows High
Praise Upon tho Administration.
Secretary Bristow was among tn.
Presidents callers recently. He also called
upon Secretary Fairchild and there met
Senator Sherman, who had called to pay his
respects to the new head OF the treasury. In
conversation with a treasury official, Nh.
Bristow spoke in terms of the highest
praise of President Cleveland and his admin
istration. He said he could observe an
improved tone in the public service, the
result OF Mr.. Cleyeland's upright and just
methods.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-04-14

Farmers who raise turkeys in Lehigh
county, Penn, drive them to market as they
would Sheep. Sometimes fiocks OF zoo are
thus driven along the public roads.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-04-14

Charles Tiel, Philadelphia, Pa, was in
hopeless condition from throat trouble and
asthma. Red Star Cough Cure cured him.
Price twenty-five cents. At druggists.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-04-14

Rabbit hunting by moonlight ia now in
Obliged In by rauchers in the vicinity oil Lex
ington, oregon. The destructive animals
nav nocturnal visits to hay stacks in large
drsye-. where the hunters lie in wait for them
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-04-14

When you make mistake don't look bacA
at II long, Take the reason of the thing
into your own mind, and then look forward.
Mistakes are lessons OF wisdom. The past
cannot be changed, The future is yet 10
your power.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-04-14

Sandpaper is at present made With
nowdered glass instead of sand.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-04-14

II cough disturbs your sleep, take Piso's
Cure for Consumption and rest well.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-04-14

N. Il. Fifteen.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-04-14

family physicians suffering as they imagine
and indifferent
the delay wrong
of prolonged misery.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-04-14

Great thoughts are always helpful.
They give noble tone to the spirit, ex-
alt the mind, and stimulate to worthy
deeds. Those who cultivate such
thoughts arr We at the best experience
and achieve the MANIFEST lives.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-04-14
| The GREATEST
| EARTHLY BoOA.|
TREATING The WRONG DISEASE

The 'Favorite Prescription
poor suffering women"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-04-14
One Agent Merchant only wanted IN every town for

63 Main street, HUFFALO, n. -.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-05
Watertown,s Boom.

Special 10 the Globe.
WATERFOWL, Oak, March THE first
week in March has been the first pleasant
week we have had for three months and it
also marks the greatest activity and enter
prise that has ever been known here. The
board of trade has closed bargain with a
broum factory to locate here, and the
same will be in operation within sixty days.
They are also about to conclude
bargain with shirt factory
to locate here. W. Il. Love, of
Huron, agent for the Thompson Houston
electric light system. is here, and the pros
poets are that he will put in all electric
plant. A telephone company is also being
organized, with capital stock of $40, 900.
The new opera house stockholders COM
menced excavations to-day for the finest
opera house west of ST. Paul. The militia
company has organized a stock company
and will erect a s., 900 armory OH Oak
street. Col. Sheafe and John Kemp are
expected home from Bismarck to-day.
Mayor McIntire is in Bismarck
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-05
Exasperaling People.

Philadelphia News.
The editor who returns your story with
thanks
The person who assumes an expression
of gloom while yon are telling the funniest
anecdote you know.
The public which wont go to see your
play.
Virgins.
The individual who, when he learns your
age is 80, looks surprised and says that he
supposed you were at least five years older.
The man who differs from You Oh politi-
cal matters.
The misguided being who refused to be
governed by your advice.
The acquaintance who tells You that the
great speculation in which you have in
vested all your valuable capital is sure to be
failure.
The reader who don't think the foregoing
funny.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-05

isn't enough vanity in Gov Church's
makeup to dim the eye of Durham mus
quito. He is plain. unassuming
thinker. hard worker, man
who makes business of life
and looks on death as Ia sort of an indeti-
mite vacation. In the parlance of the
country that ne rules, he is rustler with
low neck and short sleeves. Coming here
TO govern a territory as grand as this, most
men would have fitted themselves out with
a costly suite of rooms at the best hotel.
and there ente rtained with high headed
dignity the men who considered it all honor
to be allowed admittance to his
presence. but Gov. Church has rented two
rooms, plainly furnished in the rear of
a bank building away, from the clatter and
jar of the streets and almost away from the
world One window looks out on a low
stretch of ice-bonnd bottom land and row
of wrinkled bluffs. while the other opens on
the plain side of an adjoining building.
The main room is furnished with two or
three tables. a sofa. few chairs and a tall,
friendly-looking stove. OFF this apartment
opens the governors sleeping room, fur
niShed comfortably but upostentatously. He
eats at the hotel but sleeps and thinks in
these unassuming quarters. A few days
ago photographer walked into the gov
ernor's office at the capitol. and on the wall
in his reception room hung large portrait
of his eXcellency encased in beautiful and
costly frame. The governor allowed it to
hang there until the evening of his recep-
ton, when he ordered it down and it was
hung away in a dark room alongside a row
of formidable looking muskets. He takes
compliment in manner that
indicates he is accepting gift from friend
to please the donor, but doesn't know what
to do with it. He is not haggler. He
talks horizontally and in the plainest kind
of interest. 1t has been remarked that he
possesses many of the plain and honest
characteristics of President Cleveland, for
whom he has love that is brotherly in its
intensity. TEE AITCH.